100 Greatest Canadian movies of all time?
Joe Blevins
I'll start...
"CRIME WAVE" (1985) Directed by John Paizs, this is the story of a
screenwriter named Steven who can write beginnings and endings for
movies, but not middles. He rents a room from a nice suburban couple
and tries to finish his screenplay for the ultimate "color crime
movie." Along the way, the couple's inquisitive daughter, Kim, becomes
Steven's #1 fan. She gets him in touch with an experienced screenwriter
who turns out to be... well, watch the darned film for yourself. It's
sorta David Lynch meets John Waters. A lot of bizarre scenes from
Steven's unfinished screenplay are acted out along the way, and those
are the highlights of the movie. "Crime Wave" is a definite
love-it-or-hate-it movie. I happen to love it.
Well, we're up to one. Ninety-nine left.
--Joe--
Aphthakid
All right, I'll add two to this list.
2) Zombie Nightmare. Will definately stay on this list until someone can name
100 other Canadian films, damnit!
3) Strange Brew. I don't know if Canadians would want to actually claim this
movie, but I like it and, again, until someone can name enough Canadian films
to knock it out of the top 100, it's in, eh?
Michael Babitsky
Aphthakid wrote in message
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Here's some. (no specific order)
4. A Christmas Story
5. Sweet Hereafter
6. Leolo
7. Changeling
8. When Night is Falling
9. Black Christmas
10. Goin’ Down the Road
11. Handyman
12. Education of Little Tree
13. Love and Human Remains
14. Family Viewing
15. In the Company of Men
16. Rock ‘n Rule
17. Heavy Metal
18. Exotica
19. The Pyx
20. Videodrome
21. Dead Zone
22. 32 Short Films About Glen Gould
23. Adjuster
24. Meatballs
That's 24... ummm…ummm… Ski School???
There...25!!
Not bad, eh?
75 to go.
C'mon, list those Canadian classics
-MIKE
Joe B
Michael Babitsky wrote in message <6mcp85$t...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>...
Well, while we're at it, let's list the rest of the films from Atom Egoyan:
26. Family Viewings
27. Next of Kin (not the Patrick Swayze one)
28. The Adjuster
29. Calendar
30. Speaking Parts
And while we're at it, please knock The Sweet Hereafter down here below
Egoyan's other films and put Exotica way up there.
In addition
31. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
32. Careful
Someone else take it from here...
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Michael Babitsky
Joe B wrote in message <1Hmi1.19513$08.46...@newscene.newscene.com>...
>Well, while we're at it, let's list the rest of the films from Atom Egoyan:
NoK, Calender, and Speaking Parts only withdrawn because
I haven't seen 'em. (Should've included them anyway, since they're
Egoyan films) But, I did include Adjuster and Family Viewing...which you
mentioned.
So, we're only on 30... Wouldn't wanna cheat on our way to 100, eh?. =)
I'll shoot it back up to 32.
>29. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
>30. Careful
>31. Crash
>32. Naked Lunch
Chris Pierson
In article <6mdi61$n...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>,
33. Kissed
34. The Hanging Garden
35. Dance Me Outside
36. Highway 61
37. Hard Core Logo
38. Margaret's Museum
39. Le Confessionnal
40. Cube
41. Whale Music
42. Double Happiness
43. Roadkill
44. Jesus of Montreal
45. Fire
46. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
47. The Assignment
48. Black Robe
49. Curtis's Charm
50. Rude
51. Fun
52. The Grey Fox
53. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
54. Joshua Then and Now
55. Long Day's Journey Into Night
56. Love and Death on Long Island
57. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
58. Mon oncle Antoine
59. The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
60. Le polygraphe
61. The Suburbanators
62. Un zoo la nuit
63. Zero Patience
... and over to someone else.
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Paul Duca
Aphthakid wrote:
> >I'll start...
> >
>
> "CRIME WAVE"
(description snipped--my newsreader won't let me post anything with more
carryover text than new text)
>
> >
> >Well, we're up to one. Ninety-nine left.
>
> All right, I'll add two to this list.
>
> 2) Zombie Nightmare. Will definately stay on this list until someone can name
> 100 other Canadian films, damnit!
>
> 3) Strange Brew. I don't know if Canadians would want to actually claim this
> movie, but I like it and, again, until someone can name enough Canadian films
> to knock it out of the top 100, it's in, eh?
4) PORKY'S...yes, it was set and filmed in the U.S.--but because of its
production financing, it is considered a Canadian film
Paul Duca--the Supercharged(with Broadband)MSTie
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Just announced...the Simpsons and Alex Trebek will be among the 1999
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Earthlink
Michael Babitsky wrote in message <6mdi61$n...@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>...
>
>Joe B wrote in message <1Hmi1.19513$08.46...@newscene.newscene.com>...
>
>>Well, while we're at it, let's list the rest of the films from Atom
Egoyan:
>NoK, Calender, and Speaking Parts only withdrawn because
>I haven't seen 'em. (Should've included them anyway, since they're
>Egoyan films) But, I did include Adjuster and Family Viewing...which you
>mentioned.
>So, we're only on 30... Wouldn't wanna cheat on our way to 100, eh?. =)
>I'll shoot it back up to 32.
>
>>29. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
>>30. Careful
>
>
>
>>31. Crash
>>32. Naked Lunch
>
>
33. Slap Shot
ACMCE
>Chris Pierson wrote:
>Well, while we're at it, let's list the rest of the films from Atom Egoyan:
(some snipping and rearranging, etc.)
1. CRIME WAVE
(2. Zombie Nightmare) joke, right?
(3. Strange Brew)
4. A Christmas Story
>5. Exotica
>6. Leolo
>7. Changeling
>8. When Night is Falling
>9. Black Christmas
>10. Goin’ Down the Road
>11. Handyman
>12. Education of Little Tree
>13. Love and Human Remains
>14. Family Viewing
>15. In the Company of Men
>16. Rock ‘n Rule
>17. Heavy Metal
>18.The Sweet Hereafter
>19. The Pyx
>20. Videodrome
>21. Dead Zone
>22. 32 Short Films About Glen Gould
>23. Adjuster
>24. Meatballs
25.?
26. Family Viewings
27. Next of Kin (not the Patrick Swayze one)
28. The Adjuster
29. Calendar
30. Speaking Parts
31. Tales from the Gimli Hospital
32. Careful
Someone else take it from here...
31. Crash
>>32. Naked Lunch
33. Kissed
64. The Brood
65. They Came From Within (aka Shivers)
66. Rabid
67. Dead Ringers
68. Scanners
and then over to you....
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Aphthakid
>From: ac...@aol.com (ACMCE)
>(2. Zombie Nightmare) joke, right?
Hey, like I said, until people list 100 other Canadian films, Zombie Nightmare
is in the top 100 Canadian films.
DAvery
MSTie #57992
Was "Canadian Bacon" a Canadian film?
Michael Babitsky
ACMCE wrote in message <199806191853...@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
>25.?
was Ski School, which although is not a 'great' movie, it does have
some funny parts, and is at least as deserving as Zombie Nightmare.
>64. The Brood
>65. They Came From Within (aka Shivers)
>66. Rabid
>67. Dead Ringers
>68. Scanners
>
>and then over to you....
69. Bubbles Galore
70. Peanut Butter Solution (Anyone remember this???)
This is getting tough...
-MIKE
Lord Head
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Paul Duca wrote:
> 4) PORKY'S...yes, it was set and filmed in the U.S.--but because of its
> production financing, it is considered a Canadian film
5) ROCK 'N' ROLL NIGHTMARE. Remember Jean Mikl-Thor? Remember Zombie
Nightmare? Well, he decided to direct AND star in this one.
-Lord "Pretty silly movie" Head
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Susan Katz
Michael Babitsky (djf...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: 69. Bubbles Galore
: 70. Peanut Butter Solution (Anyone remember this???)
:
: This is getting tough...
71. GNAW! Food of the Gods II
Joe Blevins
Aphthakid wrote:
>
> DAvery
> MSTie #57992
> Was "Canadian Bacon" a Canadian film?
Nope. It was made by Michael Moore ("Roger & Me"), who is from Michigan
-- near Canada but not quite in it.
Around here (the Flint area), Moore is a HUGE celebrity and virutally
everything he does is newsworthy.
By the way, "Roger & Me" fans, the Autoworld amusement park seen in the
movie was (sadly) torn down. I used to love driving by it every day.
An abandoned amusement park is even better than a functioning one.
Something about having a local "Carnival of Souls" right near by was
appealing to me. At the very least, I think Flint should have kept it
standing as a stern reminder never to waste that kind of money again.
--Joe--
Stephen Cooke
I was glad to see someone include The Hanging Garden (an East Coast
flick) on their Canadian movies list...I should also mention...
The Neptune Factor: bad giant fish flick that was rumoured to have been
considered for MST fodder some time ago.
Def Con 4: from the makers of Lexx: The Dark Zone...picked up for
distribution by...Roger Corman! Definite Bot fodder
The Adventures of Faustus Bidgood: surreal Newfoundland comedy that has
to be seen to be believed
Seige: remake of Fort Apache set in downtown Halifax, featuring friends
of mine as car-stealing punks. Widely available on video. From
those Lexx folks.
and of course, we can't forget...
SQUAAAAAAAAANNNTOOOOOOOOOO!
swac
or Scarlet Letter.
Chris Pierson
In article <199806191853...@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
ACMCE <ac...@aol.com> wrote:
>>Michael Babitsky <djf...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>Joe B wrote
>
>>Chris Pierson wrote:
>
>>Well, while we're at it, let's list the rest of the films from Atom Egoyan:
>(some snipping and rearranging, etc.)
>
>1. CRIME WAVE
>4. A Christmas Story
>>5. Exotica
>>6. Leolo
>>7. Changeling
>>8. When Night is Falling
>>9. Black Christmas
>>10. Goin’ Down the Road
>>11. Handyman
>>12. Education of Little Tree
>>13. Love and Human Remains
>>14. Family Viewing
>>15. In the Company of Men
>>16. Rock ‘n Rule
>>17. Heavy Metal
>>18.The Sweet Hereafter
>>19. The Pyx
>>20. Videodrome
>>21. Dead Zone
>>22. 32 Short Films About Glen Gould
>>23. Adjuster
>>24. Meatballs
>65. They Came From Within (aka Shivers)
>66. Rabid
>67. Dead Ringers
>68. Scanners
>70. The Peanut Butter Solution
>and then over to you....
71. Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
72. Le declin de l'empire americain
73. The Champagne Safari
74. Live Bait
75. If Only I Were an Indian ...
76. Zigrail
77. The War Between Us
78. Liste noire
79. A Woman in Transit
80. The Planet of Junior Brown
81. Crying Freeman
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Norb42
On "The Adventures of Pete and Pete", Michael Babitsky wrote:
>70. Peanut Butter Solution (Anyone remember this???)
Hmmm. Oh, let's see . . .
On a dare, a young boy enters a house reputed to be haunted, where he sees
something so frightening that all of his hair falls out. One night, benign
ghosts appear in his kitchen and give him a recipe, involving peanut butter,
for a hair restoration formula. It works, but his hair won't stop growing, and
by the next afternoon it trails for meters and meters behind him. (In the
comic subplot, his best friend has the same problem, except that he used the
solution to grow hair in his private batchicular area.) The long-haired boy
attracts the attention of an evil artist, who kidnaps him and uses his hair to
manufacture magic paintbrush bristles. These brushes produce paintings so
realistic that people can step into them. The boy is rescued, he escapes into
a painting of the haunted house, and the evil artist follows him but sees
something in the haunted house so frightening that her hair falls out.
Is that the one?
Norb
It's one of those movies that I sometimes think I hallucinated in my youth.
nicklby
I'm a little surprised this one hasn't come up yet ...
82. Silent Partner
nicklby
Robber Christopher Plummer robs bank teller Elliot Gould, but leaves
the money behind. Gould gets it and starts enjoying life. Plummer
starts making Gould's life a living hell. Damn good little movie.
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The Midnight Rambler
nicklby wrote:
I'll chime in, since I was thinking about it...
83. Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave.
That's right, Canadian.
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>Robber Christopher Plummer robs bank teller Elliot Gould, but leaves
>the money behind. Gould gets it and starts enjoying life. Plummer
>starts making Gould's life a living hell. Damn good little movie.
Not surprising, since Curtis Hanson did the script.
Tom Cervo
#84
"Skip Tracer"
A quiet little movie, along the lines of "The Conversation" about the guy you
meet when you're REALLY late with the loan payment. David Peterson gives a
performance that's more subtle than Hackman's: you really don't think that
there's anything under the suit.
Lizard
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JaneCb2
nor...@aol.com (Norb42) wrote:
(Me too)
Oh, thank goodness someone else knows about this! I have the oddest memory of
seeing this in school, and it was starting to eat away at the edges of my mind.
Thanks, RATMM! :) Unfortunately, the image of that kid running outside the
house with incredibly long hair whipping in the wind is indelibly printed in my
mind...and it's disturbing...oh god help me.
Jane,
hee
WoemCats
OHMIGOSH! I remember this! It really creeped me out when I was little...
weird, it just popped up outa my brain when I read the summary...
>Jane,
>hee
Some things should remain forgotten...
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